psychiatric morbidity of overseas patients in inner london a hospital based study海外患者的精神病发病率在内伦敦医院的基础研究.pdf

Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Open Access Psychiatric morbidity of overseas patients in inner London: A hospital based study 1 2 Fredy J Carranza* and Alice M Parshall 1 2 Address: Adult Psychiatry, Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust, London, SW1V-2RH, UK and Department of Adult Psychiatry, West London NHS Trust, Isleworth, TW7-6AF, UK Email: Fredy J Carranza* - carraberg@; Alice M Parshall - Alice.Parshall@wlmht.nhs.uk * Corresponding author Published: 14 February 2005 Received: 14 June 2004 Accepted: 14 February 2005 Annals of General Psychiatry 2005, 4:4 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-4-4 This article is available from: /content/4/1/4 © 2005 Carranza and Parshall; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Evaluation of the referral, admission, treatment, and outcome of overseas patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital in central London. Ethical, legal and economic implications, and the involvement of consulates in the admission process, are discussed. Method: Assessment and review of overseas patients admitted between 1 January 1999